... Prince, 1955); a testimonio , El Masacre se pasa a pie by Freddy Prestol Castillo (Santo Domingo, 1973); and the celebrated novel by Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat, The Farming of Bones (New York, 1998)—the chapter traces the official discourse surrounding Massacre of 1937 back to the anti...

...267 An Oral History of a Massacre Isil Nicolas Cour Between 2 and 8 October 1937, the Dominican military killed with machetes an esti- mated fifteen thousand persons, including Haitian immigrants who had been living for many generations in the northwestern frontier region of the Dominican Republic...

...276 Massacre River René Philoctète Poet, novelist, and playwright René Philoctète was one of the three cofounders, with Frankétienne and Jean-Claude Fignolé, of the late twentieth-century aesthetic philosophy of Spiralism. He was also a member of the Haïti Littéraire collective, a small group...

...279 On the 1937 Massacre Esther Dartigue In the following excerpt from Esther Dartigue s posthumously published memoirs, we gain rare insight into the 1937 massacre through Dartigue s firsthand account from the Haitian side of the island. Dartigue was born in Vizakna, Hungary (30 December 1908...

...The Bulhoek Massacre Anonymous Radical separatist Christianity had begun in the nineteenth century, in some cases in the earliest years of European missionizing. In the late nineteenth century and especially in the twentieth century, however, Africans began exploring new ways...